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The Brussels Post, 1894-10-5, Page 2SHE DEAN AND HIS DAUGHTER. 0IIA1?T:ER XL1I.. Aa soon eel Wee up and t*baut, I hunted Moo be l she ha .ono fit as 1 1 and h he a u F+G a P P I' Ethel, hauling up me on her swat anomie, we very soon found ourselves elone together, not in the ehrubberies but upon the lawn, Where we eoula aG once discontinue our couveratt ion, and plunge boldly into some• thing else, should anyone break iii upon us. +'I have news for you, Ethel." "And I have news for you. "B10s0 my soul 1 we are always doing, or thinking, or wanting the same thing, or having the sante thing happen to us at the same time, " It's marvelous 1 Well what le ie and what ie it all about 1" "It's no very great Bonet dear. It's simply title, that a Paan, who happens to be eligible and to be also a very good fellow into the bargain, has propoeed'to me." "Good heavens, you don't say eo? And a man, who happens to he a very nice 1e1 - low and to be very eligibleiuto the bargatu, has a second time proposed to me. 1t al- most begins to look ae if we were bewi.teh- ed, Tell me now; who is your mac?" "Before' answer that, you mot tell me whether you have accepted Lord Ashwell this time or whether you have beeninsane enough to once again send the poor man off about hie business. ' "No, Ethel, I have done the right and the merciful thing this time. I have told him that I will do all I can to make him a most amiable and in every way a model wife, and I have sent him off'. I really believe, so happy that he hardly seems to know what to do with himself. Now tell me what you have done, or rather tell mefirst, who your victim is." "My vtotim, as you are pleased to term him, Lady Craven, is bearing up wonder- fully uuder all the circumstances. Allow me to inquire after the health of yours." "Mine ie radiant with delight and now that we have each of net hooked and pram tinily landed our fish, suppose we begin to compare notes. Who is your fieb, whet does he scale, how old is he, and is he in seasonable condition ?" "I will answer categorically. My fish is named Sir ThomasJackson, audits an Alder• man and ex•Lord Mayor, and very present. obtain every respect. 01 his exact ueliing I know nothing as yet, except thee he is something in the city and must make a fair amount or money by pursuing that ocoupe, tion, ashis private residence and place of residence nuc of business hours is in Ches. hem Place, Be may be it eoap boiler for all that 1 care eo long as he is content to do what is right and handsome in the way of settlements, pooket•ntoney, and other such matters o f detail. It is hi the matters of detail dear Miriam, that the whole secret of this world really lies. Look to your details,am the larger matters will take care of them. selves quite naturally," "So 1 am oornine to believe. Firet,how- aver, let me congratulate you with all my heart. We are such very old friende, and good friende,that Ineed hardly do sole asst apeeeh,now let me in turn tell you all about my own love stair. I have mt.de my fiance the happiest of men, and he is, I believe, at this moment either dreaming of me, or else thinking of me over hie after breakfast cigar and brandy and sofa. For Heaven's sake, if he should come up, as he may at any moment, don't look full of guilty knowledge. Try and talk as if no- thing whatever was passing in your mind. Put on what 1 have heard you call a casual appearance. It is a very happy phrase, ex. actly hitting oft' what it describes." "i will look, my deer, as casual eel pos- sibly can, and I had better perhaps begin to look so at once,forhere comes the young gentleman himself." The young gen clemanhimself was bearing down upon us at this juncture and wanting to know whence we came, and whither we were going, and what we thought of the weather, and so on, gave me at last the chance of telling him that 1 was going up to London on business that very afternoon, having in fact received a letter which made it necessary that I should do en. Lord Ashwell drove me up to the station, and saw me o& Arrived atPeddfngton, I procured a hansom, and, in about twenty minutes, found myself once again In the offices of Meseta. Wylie F Wylie. Mr. George Wyhe received me in his ureal manner, although with more defer- ence, 1 fancy, than he would show to ord- inary clients, .And he then proceeded to extract my business from me so skilfully and rapidly that he really knew all about it before I, for my own part, was aware that I even told him anything. When Ile had learnt what he wished to know he congratulated me very gravely and courteously. Lord Ashwell, he said, was a young nobleman, whom evetybody liked, and who had never been involved in any scandal, or even difficulty ; else he, Mr. Wylie, would most certainly have known all about it. His lordship was in the best set, and belonged to two or three of the very best clubs, the arltonn and White's for instance. lie was said and be- lieved, to have very oonsidereblo ability, and to be certain one day to make his mark in the Upper House. Aad then Mr. Kylie abruptly gave the conversation a new departure by coking me whether I had ae yet told Lord Ashwell of, what he politely termed, the persecutions to whioh I had been oubjected. 1 answered that I had not ea yet hail time to tell Lord Ashanti anything, and that my real object in coming up to town had been to ask him, ter. Wylie, what he thought I had better do. The man of law considered the mat. for for a moment, not being, according to his usual practice, ready et once with an entire solution of the. whole difficulty. Then, having thought the matter out, he replied cheerfully: "Of Bourse you must let him know, soon- er or later, and before your engagement gets abroad ; or, if you do not, some enemy or other wildo the thingg for you. It is quite neoeeaary that it should be done, and I advise you to do 'it at. once The only possible question is, will you do it yourself, or shall somebody do it for you 1 Now, I onld gladly go beyond the routine of ped. only that I think you had ell youreelf, Then you shall write to 1 tell him, and if ertainly tell him. eomin.in seen, ale IS auto to know thie story already, in ell button stobobili Gm iso as e atd t e Onee Manned Wend time, and free), every possible point of view. If n Ito will etave termed his own opinion, and I have very little doubt myself me to what that opinion will be." "Beetle)) mem wore so down on me," I 85.101, "!Leading arth:lee in nowepapere," he replied, "alweye accept the fait ao,ompli, alweyadaythat they had foreseen ie all along; Mawr emake it out worse than it 18; end ttltve.ye moralize abeet it int; manner which is often :sublimely impertinent and oiokoniugly hypootltio0l. No'mee with any confidences in hie own opinion is over in. fluenced by Otto papers. Lord Aehwell, whatever he may have read at the time, will have formed his own judgment upon your history, and 1 should say' that his judgment would he a nand one. 'And all these Uhiuge boles so, I eauuot help tbiuking that your heat course is to tell him yourself' who you really are, and then to suggest that he naiad 'come and see me, as 1 had Mr. Sabiue's oonfideueo entirely, and can thoroughly satisfy: Lord Ashwell upon any point he tney wieh to be informed about." • T1f0 watt evidently meant to be final, so I wished Mr. Wylie good day; was escort- ed by him in person to mycab, and, as I had determined to stay i t town for the night, was driven at once to my old quart- ers at the Langton!. On this 000aeion, inetead of going to the play, I dined rather tote, with the allow•' anae of a pint of ohampagne. A man after this would, of coursehave amokod. I, on the oontrary, sat before the fire (for it was rather chilly) with some tea and asmall glass of fine champagne, and then wrote to letter, which, as I knew, would, of despatched by hard to the etatiou-box at Paddington, reach The Uplands in the morning mailbag. CHAPTER XLIII. My letter wasshort enough, but I knew. that Lord Ashwell would be delighted to hear from me. I told him that 1 had got through the little ahoppine What had taken me up to town entirely to my satisfaction, and that I intended toreturn by an early train the next morning, which would land meat the statim at about eleven, and that 1 ehonld then drive straight to the hou-e. I pleaded the necessity for patching, the poet ea an excuse for the alhortnees of the letter, and having made pertain that it would be eeutoff safely, went to bed earlier. than my usual hour. My lover met meet the station. He had sent down fiord London a small atanhope, and a couple of fast•trotting cobs, whioh he said ho wished me to try, I need not remind my reader that my little experience of driving had been acquired very late in life. But I had a natural aptitude for it, and I could feel as I took the reins that the horses knew their mistress, and that Lord Ashwell could see as much. When we reached The Uplands Intomis. ed that I would join him ea theruetiohouse by the campshead as soon as I had changed my traveling dress. This operation I per. formed with great care, trying to make myself look at my very heat, and I really think succeeding tolerably well. Then I made my way down to the wator'a edge, and there found Lord Ashwell throwing pebbles more or less aimlessly into the water, and evidently in an extremely restless frame of mind. He began at once about myself, and about our marriage. How soon wee it to be? and when and where was into take place? and itow Boon might be tell ell his treinds about it? At present he had thought it best to keep strictly to the very letter of our understanding, and to tell no. one. But, of course, the thing mnetbe known sooner or later, he did not really see any reason why it should not just as well be made public at once. Why should we not tell the Fox's who were kind people, and would be sure to be pleased, and have the whole thing put in the Post in the shape of the customary announcement? There was not the least ccoaalm for any mystery, and for his own part he wanted. the news to be made public property as sone as possible. He was evidently in earnest, and not at all in a humor to be put oil. All that I could do was to beg him for a few days to let matters rest as they were. "I have no doubt," I saltl, "you will think me fanciful, so perhaps 1 am, In fact, I think that all woman are fanciful more or less I oan only ask you for just this once to bear patiently with me, and to honor my fence.. A day or two, or even a couple of weeks (for which I do not ask, and have no intention of asking), is a very little matter after all, where two lives are concerned. Ae for our marriage itself, I have no wish to postpone that indefinitely, or, in fact, at all. I only want a few days more." Nell, my darling," he answered, "it is idle to pretend that I am not disappoint- ed, for I am, and I think I have a little reason to be. I always hated mystery, and I wanted to have had the whole thing out at once. It roust be, however, as you pleats. For the present I will say no more about it, but we cannot, of course, prolong our stay here indefinitely. The best of the people have gone already, and the rest will soon be going. For my part, I think the sooner wa let the thing be known, and without giving people any un. nec0essary time to think about it and chatter about it, get married up in Landon and am off to the Continent, the better it will be. Cannot yntt give me any idea?" Upon what obght circumstances our whole life often lingers. I felt strongly-- almost trongly—almoot irresistibly—tempted then and there to tell him everything; but my evil destiny prompted me to put off doing Bo. I was tired with my journey, with late hcure, and with the excitement of my triumph, and perhaps also I was vain enough to be lieve that a little something lute coquetry might not be altogether Without avail. So I put the matter lightly by, teiltng him that I should very probably make up my mind that night, aitd that I would or. Utility let him know before dinner the next day. Then wo made our way up through the reddening plantations to the house, for, early as it was, the mists were already he., ginning to lie heavily on the meadows, and among the reeds and sedge. We parted in the hall, and I made my way to my own room. I had looked to One or two little thinge, and was beginning to think of going downstairs to luncheon, when Ethel burst into the room, "I have to be oil at once 00 Paris, my dear," she began. " 1 won't bother you with my agairs. Yon have quite enough of your own to occupy ail your attention ; but 100 I meat, or I most certainly would not be leaving you et thie particular oriels. I have looked all the Bradshaw, and all the outer authorities, and I ftttd that if I lope() here at five ebarp,1 nazi just manage to do' matters eoeofortehly. ,All my peeking is completed, my formal adieux have been made, mid there is nctkttng loft for me but to be ready for the oarriege when it wines round to the door, leantime I le u; o /Otter for you who'll has bean forwarded from puri o, where it was addressed camOf PnyeelF, IG is idle to pretend that Ida not know the tvriting, for it happens to be that of Prince llalattllcolt, Open it at once, my ohitd, and NO me know what that most estimable of Raseiane, and bast beerish,ltas to nay for himself," I complied, more or less mooitauieally, and with a eortain amount of uneasiness, I, was passing through a very severe and sharp oriels, and my.nerves were toning to the most extreme poem of tension. The letter itself slid not take by any meant long to reed, or to master its put, . port. It wits not brief, but It was tion, ohantly to the point, "Jockey Club, Paris, "October 04th, 1ti Mr DEAR Lox CRAYttl-, "It ie jun possible that it may be nom time before this letter will reach you. d'onot know where you are, and' I am aware that in England, at this timo'of the year, your movements are very likely to be erratic. Why am 1 writing to you ? 01couree I have not forgotten the stern interdict under which you have viii ually planed too. Of course I am wtbng in breaking it. Mace, que voulez-vous ? News, sometimes, come. to mein odd ways, and I have heard news of yourself, and, to toll you the truth, of Lord Ashwell. I hope wbab.I hoar may be. untrue, as his Lordehip is a most estimable specimen of eyoung English country gentle- man, and would, no doubt, make to model and extremely affectionate husband. Of that I have no manner of doubt, But it is only my duty to let you know, ex soon as I possibly eau,' that youarethreatened wibh danger. The exact story of your life ie likely at any moment, and when youMeat expect to, to be sprung neon you. You will thee find that you have plenty of fight- ing to do, if you are even. to hold your own, so you consequently cannot bo too thoroughly forearmed. "Meantime, ,5.y own love for you re- mains unaltered, e-mains-unaltered, told you truthfully that it was,and had been, the only passion of my life, and it remains en now. At any time, and under any oir- ommatanoes, .5.y old proposal to you, and the promises attached to that propoaal,hold good. I will leave Russia forever, and let you choose for yourself our place of abode. "If you want me, as I am almost certain you will, and mtolr sooner than yon tbiok, telegraph to me here, or come to me here, which ever yon prefer. I have a sort of fanny that you will come, and so shall not leave until I hear from you. "I could write pages; but I have said all that is necessary, and will now wait until our next meeting. "Yours till death. " BALANIICOFF," I handed the letter to Ethel, and said : "Read it for yourself, my dear, and tell tr 0 what it means. Your brains aro sharper than my own by far. For myself, Ioontesa, that 10 fairly puzzles me," Ethel read the letter over, not once, but two or three times, until1.felt certain that she had thoroughly maebered it. Then she handed it back 10 mo with an enigmatical expression of countenance. She wee evident- ly at once amused and bewildered, and yet not at all anxious or disquieted. "He is a funny fellow, dearMiriam," she said, "very persistent, and veryterribly in earnest- But I always told youtheehe meant well. Ae for reediug between the lines of his epistle, the task is au easy ono —far easier than the small pea under one of the three little thimbles. .He Is making alast desperate effort to get you to accept hie proposition, andie trying to frighteu you. What, however, you have to be frightened about, I fail to see. If I were you, Ishould certainly not answer the letter ; but I should none the lees keep it as a curiosity, which, indeed, it most unquestionably is. And whatever you do, mind as soon as you aro married, and have got Ashwell to your• self, that you make a Olean breast of every. thing to him, and leave him nothing to find out. There will be a scene, no doubt, at the first, but through that you must struggle, and you will end by being firmer lovers than ever, and, better than lovers, friends. For friendship is better than love in proportion as it has confidence in is while love is always passion, and conse- quently more or less irrational, oaprioione, and uncertain, if not, indeed, at times en- tirely treacherous. Marry him at once, my dear Miriam, and then the very day after. wends have the whole thing over." "But you do not seem to understand, Ethel. 'I mean to tell Lord Ashwell every- thing before I marry him. In fact I must tell him before. You forget I have seen Mr. Wylie, whose advice entirely chimes in with my own previous dotermleation. Iie- sidee,aeMr. Wylie told me, 11Imarried in any name but my own, the marriage would be an idle ceremony entirely null and void, and then all sorts of complications would follow." "Well, darling," said Ethel, "there is only one thing certain at curate and that is that the cards cannot always be aganot you. Of that I am quite confident. Your bad luck up to now has been persistent, cruel, and almost malicious, It is high time that the tide began to turn. I for my own part feel pretty Oerteen that it has turned already, and I ooneequently vote that we keep our own counsel and for the present any no more about the matter. There fa the luncheon bell, and I have my old Alderman to pacify. Ole will be fur- ious at my having to go over to Paris, and I do not mind tolling you that he is the kind of animal who wants a good deal of smoothing, down. I shrewdly enapeot that he has maned his digestion with thiots turtle soup end 141ansion House punch, and that his digestion has ruluetl his temper. None vorrons. When I am Lady Jackson, i, will puta ring inhisnoseand pipe to hem and my bear shall dance to my own tuna or 1 will know why. You shall see lay dear. You shall neo. And we went down to lunch, 0TO DB CONTINiTED) Love in Winter. There is happineoe in clinging To a garden gate and swinging On it balmy summer eventug with the maiden that you love; But in winter it is mentor In the Bitting room to meet her And hug her toyourbosom ate you nestle near the stove. In such a'situation You are safe from observation, And you needn't dread the falling dew or damp niaiarial fog, While vow's of love your making, And till your leave you're tatting, You need have no anxiety at all about the dog, LOST AT SEA ! SIS MEN' IN AN OPEN BOAT PEIFT HELPLESSLY.. In the Jlltlst or a 'Selaaal, or lllan•ltoting Shares—They Have 10 Wight With Ultra to Keen 0110 Eaten NIA at Jetty Six men were adrift in the treaohergud Japanese none for nearly a week in open boats, and the story of their sufferings i8 told its a letter written, by 0110 0 tltom. The six then were part of the ooew of the British sealer Charlotte G. Cox, and when they were Ion from the sohaouer the venal was anchored off It,masltan. Albert Jensen, the writer of the letter, says ONO only the next morning after the svhooner anchored seals oauld be seen with a glass out at flea and three of the boats put cat, after them, " We had beott having fair litok all ensue," Jenscu writee, " but never did we kill so many seals ea on that day, . By noon: we were, as we thought, about ton utilise so;ttlrof where the schooner lay, and wo began- to work bask toward her. (duns were fired aa eiguale, and soon linos were passed frontboat'to boat, and in a procession we began to hunt for the schooner. Night come upon us at sea and with very little knowledge of where svo were. The trosclierouo ocean currents had caught us, and in the darkness it was ima, possible to tell whether we were going alit 00 -en or toward eltore. 'there were not half a dozen sea biscuits in all three boats and leas than a gallon of water to last all six of us fcr an indefinite. period. The situation that night wan not very pleasing. A prospret of death from either 'starvation or thirsp was not very comforting, and all hands seemed to feel it, as we eat shivering and silent in the dark- ens. Daylight found us in the same position, but the fog still hung thick over the surface of the ocean. It was hard work rowing, and to relieve the monotony a few. seals were sighted, and some of them fell to the guns of the hunters. The few see biscuits were divided around, and the little stock of water rapidly diminished. Otto Stiu BRAT DOWN FIERCELY, the heat increased our thirst, and it was not many hours before there was nota drop of fresh water in any of the boats. We kept our oars working all day, but when night began to settle' down on us the land seemed ae far off as ever. The current was carrying us directly away fromit, and eve. had been pulling agained a tide that had probably gained on Sts at every stroke. Wo drained Lite bleed from ono of the seals we had killed the day before, and it was pass. ed around,a sip ata time. All our'food had given but early the day before, and all that wee left was the rather unpalatable carcase of the seal that hada few hours previously been strained of its blood. Ire flippers were out off and alined On into steaks, end they were soon broiling over a fire built ,n a bailing pan from some of the woodwork of the boat that could bo most readilydispensed with. After the. meal we felt better, but it Nene not long before thirat again began to melte our sufferings almostunbearable. After that the WARNS BtOAN TO GET BOLDER and before the afternoon was over they would approach so close to the boats that they were several times struck by the oars. As the sun went down a slight breeze sprang up and the sails wore set. It was not long before a gale was blow- iug,and soon afterward the raindrops began to fall. Every Moll of canvas was spread to catch the precious drops, but the shower was of oltort dttradon. Oiowever, enough had drained off the sails that bad been arranged to collect the fresh water to partly replenish the water casks, and the men drained enough one of their garments to relieve their immediate thirst. The shower soon passed, but the wind field good and we made 1110 most of it. The next day the heat was ae bad as on the two preceding days, and again the suuorings from than were renewed. The sharks were getting thicker and thicker every hour, and frequently wo were obliged to beat the winked -looking monsters away from the boats, As the strength of the men became less the nearer they would creed about the boats, until it seemed thatwe were almost forcing our way through thein. Several times they would rub against the side of tho boat with such force that it would careen violently and a new danger began to threaten us. They seemed to look upon as their prey, and they were only waiting for hunger aed thirst to do their awful work before they began theirs, Several of the boldest of these FI;ROOIOt79 BRUTES would glare at Ile front only a few feet away from the boat and seemed to pay no heed to the blow of an oar. It required a jab from a boat hook to make any impres. elon on them. All that night the men were kept buoy beatingthe water with oars to keel, the sharks at u safe distance, and even with that precaution the baldest of the school would approach close enough to givethe small craft a blow that world roll lc over e0 that water would come in over the sides. Itrequirod the utmost vigilantes of the men ail that night and all the next day to repel the attacks of the sharks, who evid- ently designed us for a repast. As darkness wan combat; down the next night a dim blue haze was seen on the horizon. It was the land, and new life took hold of us, but the sharks continued to keep us buoy. Next morning we were Ouse to the beach, and as the beets were run into a oovo armtnd a point of land Berne Japaueso took hold of them and carried us to their village. Locusts in Central America. "You have read' about John the Baptist iving upon Loousts and wild honey," said a clergyman who has been travailing in Central America. "Well, here's it locust' and he produced from his pocket a—well a locust. It doesn't hop or jump, and had no semblance of iife because, indeed, it Was clothing but a groat bean, limiting like a huge eranboruy-bean pod. It is five inches long and ahnost as big around as a banana. Idled a deep, mahoganyeolored Blau of hard consisteuay. , "I have eaten many of them. They grow on trees as olmo end fall to the: ground when ripe. Spite them open and they contain a yellow oubstanoe looking lute mustard, Mixed with water' it makes a very delicious and nourishing drink that will sustain life for a long time. One of these pods will mako a quart of drink, and everybody uses them. They may not be Otto loouette of John the Baptist, but I understand thee the troe grows in that land at the Bible." BARLEY FOR THE STATES.. An ltlattonarntod'llhtamar That Canadian Ittoely ;Will Moot n New Jtiva* Jh 1 al The formers of i can 'as l h Ohs country rat d Y the barley that s i P arOed bythe United ed States before the passage of the Noliinloy tarilt They probably bargain for the same monopoly of the outside supply now that Oho duty is lowered sufficiently to let im- portation begin egelu. But if a rumour that eomes by way of Now York is not unfounded, Canadian barley 18 likely to meet In Oho United States market a new rival from Russia, Two cargoes of barley are said to be now in troneit from Odeon on the Black Sea, where the grain is alleg- ed to have been bought ab 47c per bushel of 48 pounds, cost, freight, insurance, and duty paid to New York. There is some suspicion that the oahie advices of this sale are fabrication intended to "boar" the market on cont, as barley at ouch a prion would manifestly be it feeding grade. Newt of the importation of any fend grain to compete with corm would tend bo alarm the holders of the latter, and drive them from the high levels to which they have euecesefally raised their prime.' If these oould be soared down by a fiction of CHEAP FEED BARLEY from Russia, the "bears" would buy corn at their' own prices, and then hasten to restore the present line of value. .Even if it be a fact that Russia is chipping feed barley to the United States, the peculiar advantage of our barley in New York State. will not be impaired thereby. Tho grades of Carta& inn barley in especial demand there are those suitable for' malting. Ontario raises the best malting grades grown on this con- tinent,. So long as the duty ie not pro- hibitive, that feet ensures a demand for them from the brewers of New York, who make the bent' beer and ale produced in the United States. Ontario barley is their natural source of supply, as the barley of the Western Stotee Is that of the St. Louis brewers.' Russian feed barley aed Canadian malting barley would not touch in oompeti. Mon in the New York market We do raise teed barley : we cannot well help doing so in a wet harvest; but it usually pays us better to fend it to our own stook andsellits produbt in that form than to chip it into the United States. The growers of barley in the Central States will feel the difference between the present duty, which makes importation possible,and the. McKinley duty, which made It impossible, and which foot. Bred barleyraieing until there was a Bur. plus produeel for export. They would feel the full brunt imports from Russia. If Rennie is not prepared to dispute the New York market with us with barley 0e good as our own, it is not because she has been indifferent to barley oulture. She has tried to AxenOn00E OUR. BARLEY in her northern districts, but no word of the results of the experiment has reached: this country. It was made ayear ago last spring, when the Russian Government. bought a hundred thousand bushels of Ontario barley to be used as seed in Finland. The second crop of that barley is now about due and it would bo interesting to know if it is as good as the seed ft spriugo from. ,Ontario is much farther south than even the bluest point of Finland, and a grain hardy enough to reach its hest perfection here might not thrive well there. The Russian Government's ofdor was grateful because it was a large one coming on a de- pressed market, and because it was a com- pliment to the superiority of our barley, but it was naturally hoped that the ex- periment in whioh it was Ole first step might not be successful beyond the wildest dreams of its author. If the barley reporc- od to-beshipped from Odessa had been a malting grade, Ontario farmers might have suspected it to be of the lineage of that sold by them as and to be planted in Finland, where having prospered it gave the nucleus of a crop to the south, whose product was coming bank to the market of his kindred. PEARLS OF TRUTH. Let the end try the man. Poverty is the sixth sense. Light is the task where many ehare the toil. Ill company will make this earth a hell. Thoee who would make to feel mast feel themselves. 'I know of nothing sublime whioh is not. some tnodifloation of power. The desires and longings of men are vas as eternity, and they point him to it. The arrogant mat does but blast the bleastnge of life and swagger away his own enjoynteuts. Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it. Wo see not the flower if we eow not the seed. Drunkenness plane man as much below the level of the brutes as reason elevates him above it. 0.1 How muoh more doth beauty beaute• on seem, by that sweet mamma which truth doth give. If your honor be clothing, the suit will last a lifetime ; but if .clothing be your honor, ie will soon be worn threadbare. Argument, as usually managed, to the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading. Humor requires the direction of the nicest jtidgmeet, by so much the more no it in- dulges itself in the most boundlosn free. demo. The first virtue to to rennin the tongue. He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be eilent, even though he is in the right, The way of a emperor man is threefold; virtuous, ho le free from anxieties : wise,is free from petplexitiee ; bold, he isfree from fear. A' Serious Mistake. In the eyes of the mieorablobeing in the coil she looked an angel. She smiled and it seemed that the tiB bt of heaven had buret upon his darkened soul ; she gave him flowers and their• methane was the innettae of hope. "Good lady," he wildly cried, "hear me. I am innocent.' She oontomplated him fixedly.' " Do you .moan to say," she demanded, "that you did not murder your wife and seven children ?" Before high heaven I did not." "Give mo break those violets this min- ute," she said, peremptorily. Turning troll her heel she loft him, lURBERUU FOR IU LOlEY A WEALTHY IIU$ER TQR'I UREA IN MIS LONELY HOVEL, Tho Murderers Itenntl Their Victim's ellont110 end I+set and not abet Wok Uneven —Previous Altenapas 00 1101,ara1l Jinx 1110 01111 )lt,t,, hall Sallow^ -Molle 1010 lllonoy In. a Ranh. Oberlin B. Chauvin lived in a miserable Meuse on his farm on the (:rosea Point road, six miles Prem Detroit, for 150 70000. Ile moo money'by, spending nothing and say- bigall its received. Rio wialtb is variously estntated at from 5100,000 to 51,000,000, -Imt be always lived alone, except when hie two Mem visited him. Plots wore laid to kill the old man and rob him of hie money on several occasions, but each time the plot failed beaaaeo Chauvin was well armed, having throe Wee ' and several revolvers secured about hie miserable hovel. So miserly was he that twine within ttto last ton years he wee complained of for cruelty to animals in not feeding his stook. He was eupposed to have a vast amount of money hid about the premises, but this supposition wae;wrong as Chauvin always kept his money in the batik. Chauvin was last seen, alive by the nelghbore Sunday afternoon. Two stran- gers were seen soon after midnight that nighb in the vicinity of hie house, but nothing strange was thought of it uutil. yesterday. FOIIND ITIS DEAD BODY. His nephew, Joseph Grosbeak, wentto. see Chauvin Monday afternoon, and, find- ing the door looked, broke it in. The body of the old mieer was lying on the floor, his hands tied together, and hie feet bound, while from a dozen cuts on the body blood had flowed and stained his olcthing. His head was crushed to a jolly. The house was literally turned topoy turvy.. It was evident that murder and robbery had been done, and the Coroner was notified. He wee able to gain little in addition to the fade already given, but learned that the old man did not keep moll money in the house: Chauvin was probably largely inter'oeted in real eetate and atooks, and it is not be- lieved tho robbers secured anything. From the fact that the miser's right eye as badly discolored and his cheek bruised it is the theory of the police that the thieves and . murderers surprised him,and knocking hint down, bound his tondo and'. feet to. gethsr. TOR 01000 FOR Ins DtONEY, Then, with knives, they cut the old man in numerous planes, torturing him, with the hope t hat he would disclose the hiding place of .his wealth. Then finding their efforts futile, they crushed in the back of hie head and, leaving him dead on the floor, 'ransacked everything about the house, taking what they could And. Neither of his nines or nephews had neer the old man in the last two weeks. The sheriff, who has charge of the case, says that from the description furnished he thinks the capture of the murderersis assured. PROHIBITION IN 11IAINE. Liquor es SOLI Amply There 00 Sundays 819070. Rill conte weli-informed drunkard among the thousands in the State of Maine kindly inform mo haw it is that I can buy lager beer on Sunday at an open bar in the road station at Portland ? I did eo last Sunday, and yet the porter on the parlor car of the train on which I watt traveling told me that I could not buy, beer on his oar owing to the Motile prohibition law, Paye a writer in Town Topics. One of the inexplicable things to at outsider is that. in one place in Maine you must have your liquor served in a china egg-oup while in another you will find rum running through a hone. I have never seen anywhere such continual drunkenness as thee existing in Maine, A boy of fourteen that does not drink six whisky cocktails before breakfast is regarded as an invalid. In a place like Bath, for example, yon will find citizens strewn about the pavements front nightfall until sunrise, and the fumes of whisky are eo etreng that people out at. Winneganee and over at Woolwich only have to open their Windows iu order to pet intoxicated, themselves. But the prohibition law is in force in Bath as it at all other pointe iu Maine. :Nevertheless I bought beer in Portland on Sunday,and that openly et the bar iu the railroad station. I mention thie for the benefit of sane and thirsty travelers going down East. AtPortsmouth, N.H., you may got anything you like. At Port. land, Me., you may drink beer. It well to know this, else a man might oelieve that the Maine Legislature had. contrived to makes journey through that State a misery and shame. You may beer' up at Portland aid at Bath you will be delighted to find distinguished citizens sleeping peacefully in the gutters. Prohibitiou, it will be seen, dons not prohibit. A Hundred Million Dollar Swindle A few months ago, the news came from Tasmania, Australia, that a hill had been discovered whiult ooneioted almoot entirely of rtoh gold -quartz. A "thorough investiga- tion" was made, and as a great quantity of rich ore and some nuggets were brought from Oho place 110 one doubted the story The owner of the"golden mountain," lean B, Barker, Immediately formed a syndicate,` ^ _ which ieeuod a prospeetu0 in whieh the. ' value of the mountain was put down at twenty million pounds. The shares found a ready market throughout Australia. Some oxppertpnced old prospectors, never- theless; ]tad their doubts,and they petition. ed the Government to cause another inve0- tigation of Mount Huxley, The Govern - meet Geologist, mMontgomery, and the Inspeotbr of Mines, a gentleman, named Harelson, were sent to the spot, aed now a most gigantic swindle Dame to light. Bark- er had hired miners and, with their aesiot anae"salted"the hill in about eighty places using quarte,, oro, and oven nuggets to do the job In the places where no "salting" had taken place, no gold was found, The poli00•foroe now busied itself with Mr. Barber and his Resistants, and a mounter ortminal ease will bo the result The eharo- holdoro, ;however, are well tid of thine money.